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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Monte Perdido if you want a West Coast–leaning IPA with dry backbone,
Sea Hag if you want Northeast fruit-forward juice.
Both sit at 6.5% and 6.2% respectively, so neither will knock you sideways—they're session-friendly. The real difference is how they handle their 60 IBUs: one's crisp minerality versus the other's juicy resin.
At a glance
Generated from the four anchored axes — never hand-written.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 3
Sweetness
Δ 8
Situations
In words
Monte Perdido
Monte Perdido drinks like a lean, angular IPA—there's a dusty pine character that comes through clean, without the residual sweetness some breweries hide behind. The 6.5% ABV gives it just enough backbone to feel substantial without being heavy. Finishes dry, almost chalky in the best way, and those 60 IBUs feel earned rather than plastered on.
Sea Hag IPA
Sea Hag is what happens when a brewery leans into aromatic hops and lets them talk first. You get citrus-forward, almost candied notes upfront—grapefruit rind, some stone fruit—before the bitterness arrives as an afterthought. At 6.2%, it's a touch lighter, and it drinks faster because you're chasing those flavor notes, not sitting with minerality.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 75 vs 75 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 6
Only Monte Perdido
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Shared character
Only Sea Hag IPA